Quotes on Just Be Happy

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.